Studying stochastic systems biology of the cell with single-cell genomics data

G Gorin, JJ Vastola, L Pachter - Cell Systems, 2023 - cell.com
Recent experimental developments in genome-wide RNA quantification hold considerable
promise for systems biology. However, rigorously probing the biology of living cells requires …

[HTML][HTML] Deciphering transcriptional dynamics in vivo by counting nascent RNA molecules

S Choubey, J Kondev, A Sanchez - PLoS computational biology, 2015 - journals.plos.org
Deciphering how the regulatory DNA sequence of a gene dictates its expression in
response to intra and extracellular cues is one of the leading challenges in modern …

Single-molecule approaches to stochastic gene expression

A Raj, A van Oudenaarden - Annual review of biophysics, 2009 - annualreviews.org
Both the transcription of mRNAs from genes and their subsequent translation into proteins
are inherently stochastic biochemical events, and this randomness can lead to substantial …

A single molecule view of gene expression

DR Larson, RH Singer, D Zenklusen - Trends in cell biology, 2009 - cell.com
Analyzing the expression of single genes in single cells appears minimalistic in comparison
to gene expression studies based on more global approaches. However, stimulated by …

Integrating single-molecule experiments and discrete stochastic models to understand heterogeneous gene transcription dynamics

B Munsky, Z Fox, G Neuert - Methods, 2015 - Elsevier
The production and degradation of RNA transcripts is inherently subject to biological noise
that arises from small gene copy numbers in individual cells. As a result, cellular RNA levels …

[HTML][HTML] The chemical fluctuation theorem governing gene expression

SJ Park, S Song, GS Yang, PM Kim, S Yoon… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Gene expression is a complex stochastic process composed of numerous enzymatic
reactions with rates coupled to hidden cell-state variables. Despite advances in single-cell …

[HTML][HTML] Interpretable and tractable models of transcriptional noise for the rational design of single-molecule quantification experiments

G Gorin, JJ Vastola, M Fang, L Pachter - Nature Communications, 2022 - nature.com
The question of how cell-to-cell differences in transcription rate affect RNA count
distributions is fundamental for understanding biological processes underlying transcription …

[PDF][PDF] Monod: mechanistic analysis of single-cell RNA sequencing count data

G Gorin, L Pachter - bioRxiv, 2022 - authors.library.caltech.edu
We present the Python package Monod for the analysis of single-cell RNA sequencing count
data through chemical master equation models. Monod can effectively identify biological …

The signal within the noise: efficient inference of stochastic gene regulation models using fluorescence histograms and stochastic simulations

G Lillacci, M Khammash - Bioinformatics, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Motivation: In the noisy cellular environment, stochastic fluctuations at the molecular level
manifest as cell–cell variability at the population level that is quantifiable using high …

[HTML][HTML] Simulating multiple faceted variability in single cell RNA sequencing

X Zhang, C Xu, N Yosef - Nature communications, 2019 - nature.com
The abundance of new computational methods for processing and interpreting
transcriptomes at a single cell level raises the need for in silico platforms for evaluation and …